Dolphin Foot

Software Architect/Engineer || Radar/Sonar/DEW laser

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[Dolphin Foot @FootDolphin]

@bretfebibljesus "emitting cold moonlight". This will be the dumbest thing I read on X today

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@flatsmackin Flerf science lol

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@CreatorJonwPuck @TheGlobeIsDead

[Dolphin Foot @FootDolphin]

Perfect example of a strawman.

We intentionally build airborne radars to fly at altitude to extend the radar horizon caused by the earth's curvature. We use the standard 4/3 earth model to account for refraction and coordinate systems based on an oblate spheroid that rotates.

[Dolphin Foot @FootDolphin]

"literally nobody who understands radar thinks it works on a ball". What a ridiculous absurd thing to say. Find me one radar engineer who thinks the earth is flat. There are none. We literally design them using a 4/3 model (for refraction) and coordinate systems based on an oblate spheroid that rotates.

I've worked designing airborne radar systems for decades. We design them specifically to fly at altitude so they can see beyond the radar horizon created by the earth's curvature.

The same concept applies for OTH radars. I have over a dozen friends who worked on the JORN OTH radar in Australia. The reason we build these is to reflect signals off of the ionosphere to see beyond the curvature of the earth.

[Dolphin Foot @FootDolphin]

@Ash_mouth88 @iLeedy1987 @TheGlobeIsDead got it. you're going to run away now since you can't even explain what your own comment actually meant. Run along now little flerfy

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@Ash_mouth88 @iLeedy1987 @TheGlobeIsDead "trolling" you mean explaining basics to a flat earther that thinks a laser and light work differently?

Both are electromagnetic waves that obey the same laws of physics. You are the one that claimed "a laser not a light". Please explain what you mean by that

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@coinbase Gotta love these US regulations, protecting us from possible profits

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These laser videos that ignore refraction get so tiring. Light bends downward in denser/cooler air near the surface, especially over water. The well understood effect lets lasers appear visible beyond the geometric horizon . We specially design systems, such as military DEW laser weapons, to compensate for this exact phenomenon.

[Dolphin Foot @FootDolphin]

"A laser not a light"

This idiotic statement should be preserved in a museum of scientific illiteracy. The word LASER is literally an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. A laser is essentially light concentrated into a beam. I know this for 2 reasons. Firstly, I designed a fiber laser controller for a DEW laser weapon system. Secondly, I not retarded.

[Dolphin Foot @FootDolphin]

@omgsidewalks when their stock goes down does it come "straight out of their vaults"?

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@CoralBlob @A_SerdarKilic @TheGlobeIsDead I think he was referring to the underlying map, which shows every continent on earth. He's not a flat earther

[Dolphin Foot @FootDolphin]

That's strange, since my company designs and builds satellites. In fact, we received a $7.2 billion contract for 22 new GPS satellites. Thousands of people working on the contract. Here's a picture of what a GPS satellite looks like in the factory. I'll let them all know they're fake though

[Dolphin Foot @FootDolphin]

@DoljaninJo80605 @Physics_Phurr @Keetb999k Oh gotcha. I'm sure that's the real range then

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@DoljaninJo80605 @Physics_Phurr @Keetb999k You seriously think I can disclose information like this?

[Dolphin Foot @FootDolphin]

@Physics_Phurr @Keetb999k @DoljaninJo80605 As an engineer of 30 years who was one of the architects for the Radar Processor on the AN/APY-9 Radar (E2-D Advanced Hawkeye), I concur

[Dolphin Foot @FootDolphin]

You conveniently choose to ignore how refraction works to actually "bend" the light down due to atmospheric conditions. Under standard or super-refractive conditions (especially over cold water, which was actually noted in the video's weather data), the entire path of light traveling from the ship to the camera is bent downward in a gentle, continuous arc, not some crazy funhouse mirror effect.

This is basic physics that we account for in systems such as radar and lasers.

And here's what the windfarm looks like from the beach on a typical day.
https://t.co/p11rvwdsNe

[Dolphin Foot @FootDolphin]

You had an airdrop badge quest that required a ton of work to accumulate badges by performing endless bridging tasks across a large number of blockchains over many months. I accumulated almost all badges and finished near the top of the leaderboard. This cost a significant amount of funds to achieve.

It has now been over 4 years. Where is the airdrop? Was this just all a big scam?

https://t.co/FR37af2xWM

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@Patriot5715 @plain_see @Claymore729 "That's wrong". Laughable telling me how we code our GPS satellites. Classic Dunning-Kruger. You know better than engineers that design the actual systems. I hereby ban you from future GPS use lol